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%RESIST HYPOTHESIS REALITY DOMINATION SYSTEM POWERS+020830
 %COLLUSIVE GAMES MUTUAL SELF OTHER DECEPTION DEVIL+020830
 %CHILD PARENT ADULT TRANSACTION THOU EVIL RELATION+020830
  %PATHOLOGICAL MENTAL ILLNESS DISEASE SCHOLAR BIAS+020830
  %PREJUDICE DUE PROCESS JUDGEMENT JUSTICE FAIRNESS+020830
   %SAFELY VULNERABLE SANCTUARY GIFTS CIVILITY GODS 020830
                                                          
     For what reason are we likely to resist accepting the
hypothesis  that "The Domination System",  its domineering
supporters, their collusive games of mutual self deception
and "The Powers That Be" --- play significant roles in our
personal  lives and communities?    Consider the following
possibilities:                                            
                                                          
     1.  It is very difficult for us to accept the  notion
that our parents,  guardians,  and members of our extended
families  may be so embedded in evil-relationships  and/or
are     themselves     so     totally alienated-dishonest-
dysfunctional ---   that  it would be difficult  for us to
avoid perceiving them as pathologically "evil" --- were we
to be honest with ourselves and others.                   
                                                          
     2.  It  is  likewise difficult to accept  the  notion
that we ourselves may  be  so totally alienated-dishonest-
dysfunctional ---  that we cannot be honest with ourselves
and others --- and so that we cannot let ourselves see how
embedded we ourselves are in "The Domination System", etc.
                                                          
     3.  To  the  extent  that  we  are  well  trained  in
scholarly, scientific,  philosophical,  theological and/or
related systematic paradigms and patterns of  professional
work --- we  will find it difficult to take seriously  the
central  features  of  any  hypothesis which  asks  us  to
consider  the  possibility that "The  Domination  System",
"The Powers That Be",  and "Collusive Games of Mutual Self
Deception"   are  in  any meaningful sense  "real".    The
hypothesis  will  seem  systemically-biased,   prejudiced,
begging-the-questions, methodologically-flawed, etc.      
                                                          
     4.  To  the  extent  that  we are dependent-upon  and
vulnerable-to    domineering-people-in-power    (teachers,
professors,  mentors, employers, religious-leaders, sexual
partners, etc.) ---  we may be paralyzed by fear that they
might find out  that  we were  giving  the  above proposed
hypothesis some serious consideration --- and ostracize us
into the realm of non-being.                              
                                                          
     5.  To the extent that we have internalized the tacit
and  unspeakable rules of extant collusive games of mutual
self  deception  ---   including  the  rules  about  self-
criticism,    self-abnegation,   self-punishment,    self-
guilting,  self-shaming,  etc.  ---  we will be unable  to
consciously consider the hypothesis --- because it will be
taboo  for  us  to  even  understand  the  assumptions and
propositions which might  be negated/shown-false through a
careful consideration of them.                            
                                                          
     6.  Anyone who is  truly  capable  of truly  loving a
domineering supporter of "The Domination System" ---  will
be a major threat  to  the  apparent  "integrity"   of the
domineering person ---  and so terrifyingly attractive  as
well  as  terrifyingly repulsive and taboo ---  setting up
within the  domineering  person  an  unresolvable internal
conflict  which  cannot  be  resolved  with  integrity  in
keeping with the  dishonest  ways of the life/death of the
domineering person;  e.g.,  ways which require the use  of
self-coercion,   self-violence,   self-dishonesty,   self-
secrecy,  etc.   The true lover is likely to be blamed for
that internal conflict within the domineering person.   It
is risky to  be  a true lover of a domineering people!  It
is also risky to join  domineering people as a participant
in their violent contests for dominance and control.      
                                                          
     7.  Consideration of the proposed hypothesis  entails
the   necessity   of  becoming  involved   in   reflexive-
relationships;   i.e.,  personal-intimate-relationships in
which  the  participants REFLECT HONESTLY UPON  THEMSELVES
AND EACH OTHER AS UNIQUE OTHERS --- AS PERCEIVED BY OTHERS
AND BY THEMSELVES.  But doing that is tacitly, utterly and
ultimately  forbidden.   Such honesty  would  shatter  the
brittle structure of "The Domination System" which depends
upon  dishonesty  to  maintain its  appearances  of  being
worthy  of  great respect,  trust,  support.   The  System
demands   the  sacrifice  of  all  personal  and  communal
integrities --- in order to maintain a false appearance of
integrity.                                                
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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